CHEM 120A Problem Set 7 Solutions David Hoﬀman , Doran Bennett , Tara Yacovitch 4/2/2010 1. The solutions can be found in the McQuarrie and Simon Solutions manual. 2. The solutions can be found in the McQuarrie and Simon Solutions manual. 3. The solutions can be found in the McQuarrie and Simon Solutions manual. 4. We will use McQuarrie and Simon’s method of counting microstates where the mi-crostates are listed in a table with the possible M L ’s in the rows and the possible M S ’s in columns. We will consider the following quantum numbers: m l ,l,M L ,L ; m s ,M S and S (a) np 5 n0 p Here we have two diﬀerent p orbitals. For the ﬁrst orbital, l = 1 (p orbital) such that m l = 1 ,0 ,-1 We also ﬁnd that the spins for paired electrons cancel such that m s = ± 1 2 For the second orbital, l0 = 1 and m l0 = 1 ,0 ,-1 m s0 = ± 1 2 We add the maximum values for the individual orbital quantum numbers to ﬁnd M L = 2 , 1 ,0 ,-1 , 2 M S = 1 ,0 ,-1 We construct a table and write in the possible microstates, m l m s m l0 m s0 . For simplicity, we write α for m s = + 1 2 and β for m s =-1 2 . Note that we include both 1 α0 β and 0 β 1 α (and similar states) because the orbitals are non-equivalent, n 6 = n0 . 1

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